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The Doctor, Martha, and Jack materialise in a London alleyway, having used Jack's Vortex Manipulator, repaired by the Doctor, to escape the Futurekindin the year 100 trillion.
Seeing "Vote Saxon" posters everywhere, and Saxon himself on a giant TV
screen, the Doctor and Martha realise that the new Prime Minister, the
mysterious "Mr Saxon", is the Master.

In 10 Downing Street, the Master speaks briefly with Tish Jones, who is unsure of her duties in her new job there. Next he enters the newly rebuilt
cabinet room. After calling the cabinet members traitors, because they
abandoned their parties to join his electoral bandwagon, he puts on a
gas mask and activates jets of poisonous gas. As the cabinet collapses,
the Master beats his hand on the table, drumming out a four-beat rhythm.

Journalist Vivien Rook obtains an interview with Master's wife, Lucy
Saxon, as a pretext to warn Lucy that "Saxon" did not exist eighteen
months ago — his entire life before that is a fabrication. Mrs Saxon
turns to the Master, who is now standing by the door. He confirms that
Saxon doesn't exist, and then introduces his "friends", four floating,
metallic spheres, which materialise and kill Vivien. The Master
promises his wife that "everything will end tomorrow".

Meanwhile, the Doctor, Martha and Jack have gone to Martha's flat to
find out more about the Master's "Saxon" persona. Part of his
apparently varied history is the Archangel network, a mobile phone
network which Saxon was in charge of launching. The Master then makes a
televised announcement about the Toclafane,
the spheres seen earlier, saying that first contact will take place the
following morning. The Doctor is surprised; the name Toclafane is that
of a Gallifreyan fairytale villain, not a real alien race. As the
Master makes his speech, the Doctor discovers a bomb on the back of
Martha's TV. They make it outside just as her flat explodes.

Martha rings up her mum to check on her; Francine asks Martha to
come to her house, claiming that she plans to get back together with
Clive. She passes the phone to Clive, who tries to warn Martha away;
however, the "sinister woman" is listening and orders police to arrest
the entire Jones family. Martha hurriedly drives to the scene with the
Doctor and Jack. On the way she phones Tish in Downing Street, just as
Tish is dragged away by guards. Martha arrives at Francine's house, but
the police open fire on her car and she is forced to drive away.

As the Doctor, Jack, and Martha abandon the car, Martha phones Leo
to warn him, and is relieved to learn that he is in Brighton. Saxon
interrupts the conversation and the Doctor takes the phone. He tells
the Master about the Time War and how it ended. The Master reveals that he was resurrected by the Time Lords
in order to fight in the war, but ran away in fear. He then informs the
Doctor that they are now Britain's most wanted terrorists and tells
them to run, noting that Jack's friends have been sent on a wild-goose chase in the Himalayas.

One of the Toclafane appears before the Master, asking if the
"machine" is ready. The Master confirms it will reach critical mass at
8:02 AM, two minutes after first contact. The Toclafane warns of an
impending "terrible darkness" and suggests that they flee, but the
Master merely reminds it of its deadline.

As they hide in an abandoned building, the Doctor gives Martha and
Jack some insight into the Master's background, explaining that Time
Lords on Gallifrey stare into the time vortex at the age of eight: some
are inspired, some run away, and some are driven mad. The Doctor ran
and never stopped, but he believes the latter happened to the Master.
After Jack receives a posthumous message from Vivien Rook to Torchwood
about the Archangel network, the Doctor discovers that the Master is
transmitting a mysterious four-beat rhythm that subliminally persuaded
people to vote for him, which also kept the Doctor from previously
detecting the Master. The Doctor then adds a perception filter to the
TARDIS keys, allowing the trio to move about unnoticed.

While the TARDIS crew look on, US President Arthur Winters arrives in Air Force One. He tells the Master that UNIT
now controls the operation. Citing a 1968 United Nations protocol,
Winters insists on moving first contact to the neutral ground of the
UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant
and conducting the meeting himself. The Master brings Martha's family
along, and the Doctor and friends follow using Jack's Vortex
Manipulator. Onboard the Valiant, they find the TARDIS, its cloister bell ringing and the interior glowing an ominous red. It has been "cannibalised" by the Master into a paradox machine,
set to go off at 8:02 AM. The trio head for the room where first
contact is being made. The Doctor has a plan: if he can get his TARDIS
key around the Master's neck, everyone will see him for what he really
is.

When first contact begins, the Toclafane complain that the President
is not the Master. The Master reveals himself and has his friends kill
the President. The Doctor is captured by guards, and the Master
temporarily "kills" Jack with his laser screwdriver, which is also equipped with LazLabs genetic manipulation technology. Coupled with biological data from the Doctor's severed hand,
stolen in the previous episode, it allows the Master to artificially
age the Doctor by 100 years. The Master brings in Martha's family to
witness his triumph.

With the paradox machine ready, the Master tells the people of Earth that it's "the end of the world" and plays "Voodoo Child". The machine activates, creating a massive rift above the Valiant
from which six billion Toclafane emerge. He orders them to kill one
tenth of the Earth's population. He refuses to reveal the Toclafane's
true identity to the aged Doctor, saying that the revelation would
break the Doctor's hearts. Whilst the Master is distracted, Martha
glances mournfully at the Doctor, Jack, and her family, then teleports
to Earth using the Manipulator, promising to return as she watches the
Toclafane descend. The Master and his wife look down on "his new
dominion", with the aged Doctor between them, forced to confront his
failure to stop the Master.

Captain Jack Harkness reunites with the Doctor and the TARDIS
is thrown out of control to the end of the universe. They meet
Professor Yana, who is working on a means to save the remnants of
humanity while a race known as the "Futurekind" attempt to thwart his
plans.

This is Derek Jacobi's third involvement in Doctor Who and second time playing the Doctor's nemesis. The first was in the September 2003 audio drama Deadline,[3] where he played a screenwriter who believes himself to be the Doctor. The second was several months later, in the webcast Scream of the Shalka, where he played an android version of the Master.[4] David Tennant also had a minor, uncredited role in Scream of the Shalka.

John Bell is a nine-year-old who won a Blue Peter competition to appear in this episode.[5]

In an old, abandoned house, the Weeping Angels
wait. Only the Doctor can stop them, but he is trapped in time.
However, when people start disappearing, a young woman called Sally
finds cryptic messages bleeding through from 1969 â�� messages from a
mysterious stranger called the Doctor. But can she decipher them before
the Angels claim their best prize yet?

It is 1913 in England and war has come a year in advance as the
terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor. When John Smith refuses to
accept his destiny as a Time Lord, the women in his life Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½ Martha and
Joan Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½ have to help him decide.